Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal rankings 2008
103 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics has 103 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.61. The top three are Ecology Letters, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
103 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2008. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 7.91Q1 | 10.65 0.41 down from 2007 | 409 | 26% | $5,300 | ||
2Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 4.06Q1 | 5.33 0.53 up from 2007 | 47 | 11% | $3,570 | ||
3Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.24 0.35 down from 2007 | 1,241 | 100% | — | ||
4The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.39Q1 | 4.68 0.89 down from 2007 | 679 | 17% | — | ||
5Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 4.15 0.10 down from 2007 | 441 | 46% | $3,000 | ||
6Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 3.42 0.43 down from 2007 | 417 | 53% | $3,906 | ||
7Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 4.57 0.30 down from 2007 | 62 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
8The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.57Q1 | 3.36 1.20 up from 2007 | 72 | 1% | — | ||
9Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.73 0.05 down from 2007 | 540 | 100% | — | ||
10American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.49Q1 | 3.34 0.01 up from 2007 | 601 | 30% | $2,660 | ||
11CladisticsWiley · United States | 2.48Q1 | 3.70 1.41 down from 2007 | 137 | 53% | $3,960 | ||
12Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.47Q1 | 3.80 0.53 down from 2007 | 653 | 46% | $3,123 | ||
13OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 2.97 0.93 down from 2007 | 880 | 22% | $3,640 | ||
14Basic and Applied EcologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 1.99 0.35 down from 2007 | 231 | 20% | $1,800 | ||
15EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 2.23Q1 | 3.93 0.59 up from 2007 | 1,425 | 24% | $3,214 | ||
16Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.23Q1 | 2.97 0.15 down from 2007 | 588 | 19% | $3,590 | ||
17Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 2.86 0.30 down from 2007 | 1,001 | 11% | $2,740 | ||
18Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.05Q1 | 3.96 0.02 up from 2007 | 951 | 6% | $3,830 | ||
19Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 2.50 0.22 down from 2007 | 278 | 13% | $4,410 | ||
20BiotropicaWiley · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.56 0.48 up from 2007 | 370 | 14% | $2,630 | ||
21Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 2.32 0.90 up from 2007 | 210 | 32% | $3,490 | ||
22Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.36 0.81 down from 2007 | 476 | 25% | $3,541 | ||
23Animal CognitionOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.65Q1 | 2.87 0.33 up from 2007 | 128 | 24% | $3,390 | ||
24BehaviourBrill · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 1.73 0.30 down from 2007 | 255 | 16% | — | ||
25Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.62Q1 | 2.83 0.17 up from 2007 | 269 | 15% | — | ||
26Evolutionary EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 2.00 0.21 down from 2007 | 222 | 25% | $2,590 | ||
27EthologyWiley · Germany | 1.59Q2 | 2.19 0.10 down from 2007 | 379 | 20% | $4,650 | ||
28Systematic EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 1.80 0.35 down from 2007 | 107 | 6% | $4,520 | ||
29Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.55Q2 | 15.09 1.11 down from 2007 | 83 | 13% | — | ||
30Die NaturwissenschaftenSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.47Q2 | 2.41 0.07 up from 2007 | 369 | 15% | $3,790 | ||
31Organisms Diversity & EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q2 | 1.94 1.15 down from 2007 | 104 | 56% | $3,690 | ||
32International Journal of Plant SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.41Q2 | 2.17 0.22 up from 2007 | 306 | 12% | — | ||
33Zoologica ScriptaWiley · Sweden | 1.38Q2 | 2.33 0.11 down from 2007 | 140 | 13% | $4,100 | ||
34Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 1.25Q2 | 1.67 0.28 down from 2007 | 78 | 97% | — | ||
35Australian Journal of BotanyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.18Q2 | 1.87 0.36 up from 2007 | 239 | 22% | — | ||
36TaxonWiley · United States | 1.15Q2 | 1.70 0.19 up from 2007 | 535 | 28% | $2,630 | ||
37ApidologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.14Q2 | 1.64 0.03 down from 2007 | 189 | 34% | $2,990 | ||
38Systematic BotanyAmerican Society of Plant Taxonomists · United States | 1.09Q2 | 1.43 0.08 down from 2007 | 235 | 8% | — | ||
39Australian Systematic BotanyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.05Q2 | 1.61 0.31 up from 2007 | 89 | 25% | — | ||
40Review of Palaeobotany and PalynologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 1.79 0.20 up from 2007 | 235 | 13% | $3,260 | ||
41Arthropod Structure & DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.60 1.79 down from 2007 | 131 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
42Plant Systematics and EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.98Q2 | 1.46 0.18 down from 2007 | 334 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
43Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.41 0.08 up from 2007 | 366 | 30% | $3,541 | ||
44ZoomorphologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.91Q2 | 1.30 4.32 down from 2007 | 67 | 12% | $3,890 | ||
45FloraElsevier BV · Germany | 0.91Q2 | 1.25 0.29 down from 2007 | 190 | 7% | $2,900 | ||
46Evolutionary ecology researchEvolutionary Ecology Ltd. · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.54 0.03 down from 2007 | 137 | 0% | — | ||
47Journal of Insect ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.84Q2 | 1.41 0.41 up from 2007 | 181 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
48Journal of EthologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.84Q2 | 0.97 0.14 up from 2007 | 146 | 10% | $3,690 | ||
49Journal of Insect BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.84Q2 | 1.43 0.26 up from 2007 | 156 | 13% | $3,590 | ||
50Zoologischer AnzeigerElsevier BV · Germany | 0.81Q2 | 1.25 2.32 down from 2007 | 83 | 0% | $4,326 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics highlighted.
- Plant Science337
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics103
- Food Science79
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Insect Science44
- Soil Science29
- Agronomy and Crop Science28
- Aquatic Science22
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
48 additional Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 103
- Window papers (baseline)
- 48,550 +24.4% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.78 +26.1% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 95 | 101 | 105 | 109 | 106 | 101 | 103 | 106 | 103 | 113 | 120 | 128 | 130 | 137 | 140 | 144 | 144 | 145 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 147 | 150 | 151 | 147 | 145 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 29,541 | 33,040 | 34,931 | 36,852 | 36,959 | 39,032 | 41,685 | 45,017 | 48,550 | 53,297 | 59,000 | 64,284 | 66,440 | 66,489 | 67,535 | 70,051 | 72,548 | 73,555 | 73,117 | 72,516 | 71,728 | 72,753 | 74,109 | 73,873 | 72,350 | 73,578 | |
| Median OJR | 0.54 | 0.598 | 0.56 | 0.600 | 0.614 | 0.62 | 0.81 | 0.77 | 0.78 | 0.743 | 0.688 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.705 | 0.737 | 0.686 | 0.67 | 0.699 | 0.608 | 0.63 | 0.58 | 0.55 | 0.48 | 0.503 | 0.505 | 0.45 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.